John Brown's Hideout

09/07/2026

John Brown Hoodie #1 is now available!

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07/24/2026

07/24/2026

Happening Saturday July 25th
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07/23/2026

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In the late 1830's / early 1840's John Brown began to raise sheep. By 1844 he was hired by Simon Perkins to tend his flock in Akron, Ohio. He would have a home on the estate where the Perkins and Brown's sheep were kept. Brown was known for his skills in raising and caring for sheep. Particularly the Merino and Saxony breeds. He would go on to become a well recognized figure in the sheep and wool industry. Winning awards and publishing multiple articles. He would continue to manage the flock of sheep for a decade up until 1854.

His daughter Ruth would reflect back on how tender hearted and caring he was. "He would very often bring in a little dead-looking lamb, and put it in warm water and rub it until it showed signs of life, and then wrap it in a warm blanket, feed it warm milk with a teaspoon, and work over it with such tenderness that in a few hours it would be capering around the room."

During this time managing the flocks and business transactions he would continue his lifelong fight against slavery. He was a well known conductor on the underground railroad in the Ohio area and used his home on multiple occasions to hide slaves heading north.

"The practical shepherd was, in fact, a double agent. His official rounds-transporting herds, meeting with associates, assessing stock and markets-gave him both occasion and cover to conduct his other business. That business was to familiarize himself with black communities in the northeast and cultivate friendships with the increasing number of outspoken blacks who in their pulpits, newspapers and antislavery congresses were beginning to advocate a more politically active and resistant abolitionism than the mainstream antislavery movement preached or favored."

- Patriotic Treason; Evan Carton: Pg. 93



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07/23/2026

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07/18/2026

When the boomer confederate apologist uses the fire emoji to say "HELL" but ends up looking based. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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07/04/2026

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07/04/2026

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07/03/2026

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07/03/2026

John Brown is said to have passed out knives at the Sanford Street Church "The Free Church", an all black church in Springfield, Massachusetts, after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850.

One of these knives is on display at the John Brown Museum State Historic Site in Osawatomie, Kansas!

John Brown's time in Springfield in the 1840's - 1850's was deeply involved in the hotbed of anti-slavery activity. Here he would become friends with prominent black figures in the abolitionist movement. Thomas Thomas, Eli Baptist and even Frederick Douglass to name a few.

He would go on to form the "League of Gileadites" which was a group prepared to resist slavery by force.

The church would later go on to be named "St. John's Congregational Church".